Traditional and Non-Traditional Indigenous Informal Institutions in Forest Management

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/8149
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Type:	Conference Paper
Author:	Ghate, Rucha
Conference:	EGDI and UNU-WIDER Conference Unlocking Human Potential: Linking the Informal and Formal Sectors
Location:	Helsinki, Finland
Conf. Date:	September 17-18
Date:	2004
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/8149
Sector:	Forestry
Region:	Middle East & South Asia
Subject(s):	indigenous institutions indigenous knowledge community forest management IFRI
Abstract:	"'Indigenous' institutions are usually associated with traditional communities that have long histories, and where rule structure is believed to have developed gradually overtime. However, some communities without a long shared past, do tend to craft their own institutions indigenously by consciously evolving their rule structure on commonly acceptable norms of benefit sharing and sustainability. Such institutions can evolve in shorter time periods and among non-traditional heterogeneous communities as well. The two case studies presented here, one of a traditional and another of a non-traditional community, provide useful insight into locally relevant methods that communities adopt to revive old institutions or build new ones."

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